A Strategic Reset for Europe
Europe’s long-standing reliance on globalised supply chains has exposed vulnerabilities—in energy, medicine, food, and materials. TITAN and ASMARA represent a new industrial model, rooted in place, powered by renewable hydrogen, and scaled to match local needs.
This model supports the European Commission’s ambitions under the Green Deal, the Strategic Autonomy Agenda, and REPowerEU, while addressing decades of underinvestment in rural and post-industrial regions.
By placing biomanufacturing infrastructure in the countryside, these platforms create permanent economic anchors—supporting rural communities with skilled jobs, technology transfer, and export-ready production.
A Single Platform, Many Sovereign Outputs
Each TITAN and ASMARA installation starts the same: a modular plant, processing dry and wet waste to generate renewable hydrogen and fermentation-ready carbon. But the output can change depending on what the region, the nation, or the continent needs.
From the same footprint, a site can produce:
- Advanced biofuels like 2G ethanol (e.g., for aviation blending)
- Biodegradable polymers and bioplastics
- High-value CHO cells for pharmaceuticals and vaccines
- Specialty chemicals and enzymes
- Nutritional supplements and animal feed
- Carbon-negative construction additives and soil improvers
This means the platform isn’t bound to a single market—it’s resilient, adaptive, and capable of pivoting to meet public health, energy, agricultural, or industrial priorities.
CHO Cells: The Pathway to Bio-Pharma Sovereignt
CHO cells are the backbone of global therapeutic protein production. From insulin and monoclonal antibodies to modern vaccines, these cells are critical to EU health systems and biotech competitiveness.
Yet, Europe remains heavily dependent on imports of CHO-derived materials, often from North America or Asia.
TITAN and ASMARA can change that dynamic.
With fermentation systems already optimised for ethanol and protein outputs, both platforms can pivot quickly to CHO cell production. Using clean HPG and captured CO₂ as feedstock, TMF systems can support local, scalable biopharmaceutical manufacturing—infrastructure that until now has been absent from rural landscapes.
This is not just technical flexibility—it is strategic capacity.
Plug-and-Play Carbon Capture Integration
Each TITAN and ASMARA site is engineered to accept external CO₂ inputs, including from Direct Air Capture (DAC) or local industry. These plug-in upgrades allow the platforms to increase fermentation output by up to 50%, enhancing productivity without expanding physical footprint.
This transforms CO₂ from waste into resource—and makes every new DAC project a future supply chain partner.
It also positions rural areas not as carbon liabilities, but as centres of carbon transformation.
Reindustrialising the Forgotten Regions
For decades, EU grants and innovation funds have gravitated toward urban and industrial centres. The result: wealth clusters in a few geographies and abandonment elsewhere.
TITAN and ASMARA offer a counter-model.
With standardised deployment, they can be built in regions bypassed by conventional subsidies: post-agricultural districts, depopulated border zones, coal phase-out regions, and disconnected industrial parks.
The platform is scalable to local biomass supply and waste streams, meaning every region can support its own unit, sized to fit its needs and its people.
Biomanufacturing—long associated with clean rooms in city labs—can now be rooted in countryside resilience.
A Platform for Sovereignty and Solidarity
Europe’s next generation of infrastructure must do more than reduce emissions. It must deliver sovereignty in critical inputs, rebuild economies from the ground up, and create dignity in place-based work.
TITAN and ASMARA are platforms of opportunity—for circularity, for self-reliance, for rural renewal.
By combining cutting-edge fermentation with real-world materiality, they allow Europe to grow medicine, fuel, materials, and food from waste and carbon—not in theory, but in practice.
And not just in capitals, but in the forgotten corners of the continent, where the future must now be built.